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By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | December 05, 2007
Efforts to rachet down drug prices aren't enough to get the most value from the Medicare drug benefit. Two health policy experts are saying other steps are necessary to save money and improve overall...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | December 04, 2007
Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt urged Congress yesterday to include a requirement for doctors to use electronic health records as part of any proposed Medicare physician payment...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | December 04, 2007
Florida-based Lakeside Behavioral Healthcare plans to implement a number of business automation tools in order to strengthen its financial reporting capabilities. Lake...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | December 04, 2007
A vendor of on-demand digital publishing solutions and a software development firm have announced a contest in which they will donate two mammography systems to hospitals, clinics or imaging centers t...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | December 03, 2007
Hays Medical Center of Kansas has found that using a scripting software purchased three years ago has paid off in the form of "hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of man hours" and improved...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | December 03, 2007
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Sweden-based Elekta Group, has announced it will make a $1.6 million investment in The Michener Institute for...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | December 03, 2007
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a list last week of the nation's poorest performing nursing homes targeted for increased inspection and enforcement efforts....
By Jack Beaudoin | 01:00 am | December 01, 2007
DALLAS – Lance Armstrong notched seven consecutive victories in the Tour de France. Last month, the former cyclist and cancer survivor won his first major political battle, when Texas voters...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | December 01, 2007
Task force makes fiscal suggestions for hospitalThe Hospital System Strategic Task Force, assembled by Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell, has presented draft recommendations to improve Connecticut&#...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | December 01, 2007
Contributed By Thomas R. Green THIS FALL, Standard & Poor’s issued a report expressing concern over the credit risks of not-for-profit healthcare providers with speculative-grade rati...